On November 28, 2016, the Foreign Investors Council in Serbia presented this year’s edition of the “White Book”, a traditional overview of the business climate in Serbia, as well as recommendations for its improvement.


This document states a significant improvement achieved in operations of the Commission for Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia.

As per evaluation of the Foreign Investors Council, “the progress in the field of protection of competition was propelled by continuous regulatory improvements, strengthening of administrative capacity, and strong advocacy activity by the Commission for Protection of Competition. The key positive developments include the following activities performed by the Commission: successful implementation of the binding procedure; enacting the new Regulation on notification of concentration – merger control (in accordance with the EU legislation); readiness to organize pre-notification meetings in order to eliminate any ambiguities; more frequent conduct of down raids; stronger advocacy activities related to the development of competition policy by providing more information on its work, publishing opinions and decisions on the website and other promotional activities.”

The recommendation provided to the Commission is to provide a monthly overview of its activities and not only within its Annual Reports, because it would definitely contribute to increasing transparency in the work of the Commission.

The “White Book” is an overview of the business climate in Serbia provided from the angle of foreign investors, and at the same time and in transparent manner serve as a platform for communication with the authorities, and in this sense also contain certain recommendations for improvement of the state authorities operations.